huff and puff

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huff and puff

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verb huffs and puffs · huffing and puffing · huffed and puffed

To breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise. They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat.

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@misc{huff_and_puff_2026,
  title = {huff and puff},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/huff%20and%20puff},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}